Battlestar Galactica Movie News.
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The guy on the right looks like he regrets the choices he made that led him to that point in his career.
The only attention I remember any version of BSG giving to the actual mechanics of the pilot uniforms, was in G1980, when it's said that they protect the wearer against G-forces. (It's a scene where Jamie Hamilton is given a uniform to wear when she has to ride in a Viper cockpit.) Although this conflicts with "Saga of a Star World" from TOS, where Adama rides in a Viper while wearing his normal blue command uniform.
In any case, this was regarding the uniform itself, not the helmet. Can't help you there.
Although if I had to guess why the helmets were open in front and didn't have a glass or plastic covering? Probably to avoid the lights of the camera and studio sets reflecting off it.
In any case, this was regarding the uniform itself, not the helmet. Can't help you there.
Although if I had to guess why the helmets were open in front and didn't have a glass or plastic covering? Probably to avoid the lights of the camera and studio sets reflecting off it.
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The only attention I remember any version of BSG giving to the actual mechanics of the pilot uniforms, was in G1980, when it's said that they protect the wearer against G-forces. (It's a scene where Jamie Hamilton is given a uniform to wear when she has to ride in a Viper cockpit.) Although this conflicts with "Saga of a Star World" from TOS, where Adama rides in a Viper while wearing his normal blue command uniform.
In any case, this was regarding the uniform itself, not the helmet. Can't help you there.
Although if I had to guess why the helmets were open in front and didn't have a glass or plastic covering? Probably to avoid the lights of the camera and studio sets reflecting off it.
Though in Saga Of A Star World, the viper with Adama in it probably wasn't pulling any combat maneuvers.
Think it was Lost Planet Of the Gods, when they are training the new women pilots there's a seen where the appear to be wearing g-suits that would be go under the uniform. but then when there was no indicate of pilots ever getting changed before going into combat they must have been pretty uncomfortable wearing the G-suits all the time.
ChiPs 2080 interests me a lot more than the actual remake due out next year.
Actually, now that I think about it, the blue uniform worn by command-level officers like Adama, Tigh and Omega is exactly the same as the brown uniform worn by pilots. All that's different is the color (and the pilot jacket, which the command version doesn't have). So the blue unis probably protect against G-forces just like the brown version does.
Makes sense, really, it's just easier if they build all their unis the same way. Also helps if a commander has to jump into a Viper cockpit, in an emergency.
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Yeah, I understand that is probably the real world reason, but I was talking more in universe.The only attention I remember any version of BSG giving to the actual mechanics of the pilot uniforms, was in G1980, when it's said that they protect the wearer against G-forces. (It's a scene where Jamie Hamilton is given a uniform to wear when she has to ride in a Viper cockpit.) Although this conflicts with "Saga of a Star World" from TOS, where Adama rides in a Viper while wearing his normal blue command uniform.
In any case, this was regarding the uniform itself, not the helmet. Can't help you there.
Although if I had to guess why the helmets were open in front and didn't have a glass or plastic covering? Probably to avoid the lights of the camera and studio sets reflecting off it.
That could work.It was never mentioned, but I assumed the lights around the opening of the helmet projected a forcefield. If I remember correctly the pilots were sometimes seen switching on those lights once they put their helmets on.
I know it's a minor thing, but it still seemed weird to me.
I love that idea too. I kind of bought into it after the RDM series finished.
That fan theory leaves me with a deep sense of dread as it means 'BSG 1980' can possibly "fit in" with anything ever.
Also, wouldn't it mean that *everyone* from the old series--Colonials, Cylons and Dagits alike--are all descended from the freed redstripe centurions, presumably after developing skinjob and loosing resurrection tech for the fourth time in a row?
Stranger things have happened.
If Cylons can be invented, independently of each other, in the Colonies and on Not-Earth, then just add one more layer to the mix. Also remember what I said earlier about "All Along The Watchtower": Everyone knows Bob Dylan wrote the song, yet somehow it turns up several millennia earlier in the Colonies? If something like THAT can happen, then anything is possible...Also, I'm fairly sure there are plenty of skinjobs left on the Colonial worlds as of the end of nuBSG. The characters from TOS can just as easily be descended from them.
If you're concerned about G1980, though, just remember how Richard Hatch would have treated it in The Second Coming: a virtual reality simulation. See? No harm done.
Oh I wasn't saying it was narrative impossible--one hundred thousand years is a long time after all--but it's just a weird concept that those implacable killing machines could evolve into freakish dog robots, sinister cape wearing fairy-lights, lizard people and cigar chomping misogynists.
As for G'80 as a simulation: fire whoever wrote that program. Out of an airlock. And into the sun. *shudder*
As for G'80 as a simulation: fire whoever wrote that program. Out of an airlock. And into the sun. *shudder*
Actually I think most of the wildly impossible connections in nuBSG - the fact that Colonial society is an absolute carbon copy of present day Earth, "All Along The Watchtower" turning up there, and so on - is predicated on the idea of 'genetic memory' passing those things down into our own world, whereas I'm fairly sure the concept of genetic memory has been proven scientifically to be, you know, not true. Although I guess BSG handwaves it away by attributing it to Cylon influence.
In any case, this is a thing I could live without in a future version of BSG. That's one of the things that turned me off about the '03 version - these people were too much like us. Say what you like about the cheesiness of TOS, at least its characters had a smidge of alien-ness about them...
In any case, this is a thing I could live without in a future version of BSG. That's one of the things that turned me off about the '03 version - these people were too much like us. Say what you like about the cheesiness of TOS, at least its characters had a smidge of alien-ness about them...
That was of course, the point. Ron Moore wanted the audience to see themselves in this situation, and so we got a near-identical society to our own. While the show may have taken the "naturalistic sci-fi" approach to extremes a few times, I can definitely see the benefit to making things as familiar as possible, both for budgetary reasons and for audience's sake.
I suppose they could have flipped things around: simply have it be Earth (or colonies of same) in the first place. Problem solved. 
